@daniellemilbank.bsky.social
Archaeology (esp buildings archaeology and piles of old bricks), music, miscellaneous
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May as well dive right in.
Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball?
According to a Sumerian proverb, “The dog understands ‘Take it!’ It does not understand ‘Put it down!’”
Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...
Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball?
According to a Sumerian proverb, “The dog understands ‘Take it!’ It does not understand ‘Put it down!’”
Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...
November 13, 2024 at 11:20 AM
May as well dive right in.
Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball?
According to a Sumerian proverb, “The dog understands ‘Take it!’ It does not understand ‘Put it down!’”
Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...
Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball?
According to a Sumerian proverb, “The dog understands ‘Take it!’ It does not understand ‘Put it down!’”
Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...
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Here's a fun #game!
1) Check your local Vue cinema & see if it's showing 'Melania'.
2) Now see how many seats are booked...
3) Share your results 👇
Mine is Watford
Not a single ticket booked for Friday or Saturday!! 💪🤣
1) Check your local Vue cinema & see if it's showing 'Melania'.
2) Now see how many seats are booked...
3) Share your results 👇
Mine is Watford
Not a single ticket booked for Friday or Saturday!! 💪🤣
January 27, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Here's a fun #game!
1) Check your local Vue cinema & see if it's showing 'Melania'.
2) Now see how many seats are booked...
3) Share your results 👇
Mine is Watford
Not a single ticket booked for Friday or Saturday!! 💪🤣
1) Check your local Vue cinema & see if it's showing 'Melania'.
2) Now see how many seats are booked...
3) Share your results 👇
Mine is Watford
Not a single ticket booked for Friday or Saturday!! 💪🤣
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This beautiful #Roman enamelled copper alloy flask in hexagonal shape was found in Welzheim.
The small vessel was a product of a workshop in Britain or Gaul and was presumably used to hold perfume.
Dating 2. century AD.
#findsfriday 🏺
📷 @almbawue.bsky.social
The small vessel was a product of a workshop in Britain or Gaul and was presumably used to hold perfume.
Dating 2. century AD.
#findsfriday 🏺
📷 @almbawue.bsky.social
January 23, 2026 at 10:00 AM
This beautiful #Roman enamelled copper alloy flask in hexagonal shape was found in Welzheim.
The small vessel was a product of a workshop in Britain or Gaul and was presumably used to hold perfume.
Dating 2. century AD.
#findsfriday 🏺
📷 @almbawue.bsky.social
The small vessel was a product of a workshop in Britain or Gaul and was presumably used to hold perfume.
Dating 2. century AD.
#findsfriday 🏺
📷 @almbawue.bsky.social
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A life without #dogs is possible but pointless!
A tiny yet marvellous figurine of a dog (height 1.6 cm) made of blue glass and decorated with yellow and white threads. The unique figurine was found in a Celtic burial at Wallertheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, dating 2nd c. BC.
📷 Landesmuseum Mainz
A tiny yet marvellous figurine of a dog (height 1.6 cm) made of blue glass and decorated with yellow and white threads. The unique figurine was found in a Celtic burial at Wallertheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, dating 2nd c. BC.
📷 Landesmuseum Mainz
January 22, 2026 at 7:57 AM
A life without #dogs is possible but pointless!
A tiny yet marvellous figurine of a dog (height 1.6 cm) made of blue glass and decorated with yellow and white threads. The unique figurine was found in a Celtic burial at Wallertheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, dating 2nd c. BC.
📷 Landesmuseum Mainz
A tiny yet marvellous figurine of a dog (height 1.6 cm) made of blue glass and decorated with yellow and white threads. The unique figurine was found in a Celtic burial at Wallertheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, dating 2nd c. BC.
📷 Landesmuseum Mainz
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In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies.
I have translated some of the highlights
I have translated some of the highlights
January 20, 2026 at 12:30 AM
In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies.
I have translated some of the highlights
I have translated some of the highlights
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Obviously grotesquely inaccurate and deeply offensive to the non-US Nato people who served, but don't act surprised. President Bonespur has consistently and persistently denigrated the military, casually, interpersonally and formally.
Trump on NATO: "I've always said, will they be there if we ever needed them? That's really the ultimate test. I'm not sure of that. We've never needed them. They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan and this or that. And they did. They stayed a little back, off the front lines."
January 22, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Obviously grotesquely inaccurate and deeply offensive to the non-US Nato people who served, but don't act surprised. President Bonespur has consistently and persistently denigrated the military, casually, interpersonally and formally.
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Woof!
De Sario et al. 2026 The dog domestication: new ichnological (footprint) evidence from the Upper Palaeolithic of the Bàsura cave (NW Italy)
"Human and canid tracks in Grotta della Bàsura date to ∼14,400 cal yr BP." 🏺🦣🐶https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379125005177
De Sario et al. 2026 The dog domestication: new ichnological (footprint) evidence from the Upper Palaeolithic of the Bàsura cave (NW Italy)
"Human and canid tracks in Grotta della Bàsura date to ∼14,400 cal yr BP." 🏺🦣🐶https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379125005177
January 20, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Woof!
De Sario et al. 2026 The dog domestication: new ichnological (footprint) evidence from the Upper Palaeolithic of the Bàsura cave (NW Italy)
"Human and canid tracks in Grotta della Bàsura date to ∼14,400 cal yr BP." 🏺🦣🐶https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379125005177
De Sario et al. 2026 The dog domestication: new ichnological (footprint) evidence from the Upper Palaeolithic of the Bàsura cave (NW Italy)
"Human and canid tracks in Grotta della Bàsura date to ∼14,400 cal yr BP." 🏺🦣🐶https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379125005177
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(me making fun of your crop rotation idea and thereby holding our people back another 5000 years) jeff thinks the beans have to take turns lmao
August 7, 2023 at 6:38 AM
(me making fun of your crop rotation idea and thereby holding our people back another 5000 years) jeff thinks the beans have to take turns lmao
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Medieval floor tile from St. Andrew’s Priory in Northampton. The shears possibly reference a connection with the textile trade. The tile is on display at Northampton Museum & Art Gallery. 📸 My own. #TilesOnTuesday #Northampton
January 20, 2026 at 7:30 AM
Medieval floor tile from St. Andrew’s Priory in Northampton. The shears possibly reference a connection with the textile trade. The tile is on display at Northampton Museum & Art Gallery. 📸 My own. #TilesOnTuesday #Northampton
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Someone wise on here gave the perfect metaphor. When you’re in the gym, the weights don’t actually need to be moved. The outcome you’re looking for is what changes inside you when you move the weights.
January 19, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Someone wise on here gave the perfect metaphor. When you’re in the gym, the weights don’t actually need to be moved. The outcome you’re looking for is what changes inside you when you move the weights.
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And that is: asking a student to do a literature review isn’t really about the output, the final product. It’s about learning the process - assessing the quality of the evidence as you read it, learning how your question may evolve as you engage with the literature, learning how to spot SALIENCE 1/2
January 19, 2026 at 8:58 AM
And that is: asking a student to do a literature review isn’t really about the output, the final product. It’s about learning the process - assessing the quality of the evidence as you read it, learning how your question may evolve as you engage with the literature, learning how to spot SALIENCE 1/2
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Listening to a discussion about AI in university education with Amol Rajan & Prof Duncan Iveston on Radio 4 Today. Too short to get into the nuance of course, but an observation that copilot can do a literate review for you very quickly perfectly illustrates one of my main concerns with AI…1/1
January 19, 2026 at 8:58 AM
Listening to a discussion about AI in university education with Amol Rajan & Prof Duncan Iveston on Radio 4 Today. Too short to get into the nuance of course, but an observation that copilot can do a literate review for you very quickly perfectly illustrates one of my main concerns with AI…1/1
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There should be an Underwhelming Channel that specialises in documentaries about things like Britain’s least haunted house, history’s greatest self-evident truths and exposing America’s least prolific serial killers
January 16, 2026 at 12:44 PM
There should be an Underwhelming Channel that specialises in documentaries about things like Britain’s least haunted house, history’s greatest self-evident truths and exposing America’s least prolific serial killers
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A #FossilFriday request for history of palaeontology in Poland identification help!
I'm trying to figure out who the palaeontologist in the below photo is. It was taken in Warsaw in the late-1960s, and the arms are (of course) the Deinocheirus arms found during the Polish-Mongolian expeditions
I'm trying to figure out who the palaeontologist in the below photo is. It was taken in Warsaw in the late-1960s, and the arms are (of course) the Deinocheirus arms found during the Polish-Mongolian expeditions
January 16, 2026 at 12:42 PM
A #FossilFriday request for history of palaeontology in Poland identification help!
I'm trying to figure out who the palaeontologist in the below photo is. It was taken in Warsaw in the late-1960s, and the arms are (of course) the Deinocheirus arms found during the Polish-Mongolian expeditions
I'm trying to figure out who the palaeontologist in the below photo is. It was taken in Warsaw in the late-1960s, and the arms are (of course) the Deinocheirus arms found during the Polish-Mongolian expeditions
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Out this Friday: Clémentine March ‘Powder Keg’. "...freed-up chamber-pop, alt-folk, country waned and glitterball hybrid of gathered thoughts, romantic encounters and introspections voiced by Brigitte Fontaine, Cate Le Bon and Gina Birch."
clementinemarch.bandcamp.com/album/powder...
clementinemarch.bandcamp.com/album/powder...
Powder Keg, by Clémentine March
12 track album
clementinemarch.bandcamp.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:27 AM
Out this Friday: Clémentine March ‘Powder Keg’. "...freed-up chamber-pop, alt-folk, country waned and glitterball hybrid of gathered thoughts, romantic encounters and introspections voiced by Brigitte Fontaine, Cate Le Bon and Gina Birch."
clementinemarch.bandcamp.com/album/powder...
clementinemarch.bandcamp.com/album/powder...
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Am trying to hold off listening to the new Clémentine March LP 'til my vinyl copy lands, but have been unable to resist 5 songs & they're wonderful. This (playing now on #freshingredients) is the title track, 'Powder Keg'. Lots of diverse & thrilling sounds in store if you dig deeper into her stuff.
Powder Keg, by Clémentine March
12 track album
clementinemarch.bandcamp.com
January 11, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Am trying to hold off listening to the new Clémentine March LP 'til my vinyl copy lands, but have been unable to resist 5 songs & they're wonderful. This (playing now on #freshingredients) is the title track, 'Powder Keg'. Lots of diverse & thrilling sounds in store if you dig deeper into her stuff.
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I wish I had photo evidence, or at least one of the poems I'd often find stuck to my jacket when I got home. I had no idea who he was at the time other than one of a number of curious characters my mum jazzed it up with on a regular basis.
Happy birthday, Mr Cutler, where you're hiding
Happy birthday, Mr Cutler, where you're hiding
January 15, 2026 at 7:41 PM
I wish I had photo evidence, or at least one of the poems I'd often find stuck to my jacket when I got home. I had no idea who he was at the time other than one of a number of curious characters my mum jazzed it up with on a regular basis.
Happy birthday, Mr Cutler, where you're hiding
Happy birthday, Mr Cutler, where you're hiding
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I've mentioned this before but it still blows my mind. In my teens I used to sometimes go into town after school/college to meet my mum at jazz gigs in Soho/South Bank. I especially enjoyed chatting with her friend Ivor, an odd little Scotsman who always had a roll of short poems on stickers...
January 15, 2026 at 7:35 PM
I've mentioned this before but it still blows my mind. In my teens I used to sometimes go into town after school/college to meet my mum at jazz gigs in Soho/South Bank. I especially enjoyed chatting with her friend Ivor, an odd little Scotsman who always had a roll of short poems on stickers...
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RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
![You’ve got super fans pausing and zooming in on individuals frames of your documentary. One allegedly shows one of the Duffers with a ChatGPT tab open on their computer. In your presence, what did they use ChatGPT for?
I mean, are we even sure they had ChatGPT open?
I’m personally not, but the internet seems sure.
Well, there’s a lot of chatter where [social media users] are like, “We don’t really know, but we’re assuming.” But to me it’s like, doesn’t everybody have it open, to just do quick research?
I do.
How can you possibly write a storyline with 19 characters and use ChatGPT, I don’t even understand.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7t2urmt3i33jl6tjgiolio6g/bafkreidw2tmcr2ayq74oqmjm5pn2tdox6hlxnpqevhuqqj6oa7nsslx3oi@jpeg)
January 13, 2026 at 8:45 PM
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
A late #tilesontuesday - check out this beaut. A piece of Roman box-flue tile (rectangular-section tubes, about the size of a shoebox, part of a heating system) which has been stamped with a pattern. They’re distinctive, and this one dates to 150-200CE
January 13, 2026 at 8:00 PM
A late #tilesontuesday - check out this beaut. A piece of Roman box-flue tile (rectangular-section tubes, about the size of a shoebox, part of a heating system) which has been stamped with a pattern. They’re distinctive, and this one dates to 150-200CE
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The Pyrgi tablets are three golden plates inscribed with a bilingual Phoenician–Etruscan dedicatory text. They date to c. 500 BC. They record the foundation of a temple and its dedication to the Phoenician goddess Astarte. The work is attributed to Thefarie Velianas, ruler of Caere #EpigraphyTuesday
January 13, 2026 at 6:08 AM
The Pyrgi tablets are three golden plates inscribed with a bilingual Phoenician–Etruscan dedicatory text. They date to c. 500 BC. They record the foundation of a temple and its dedication to the Phoenician goddess Astarte. The work is attributed to Thefarie Velianas, ruler of Caere #EpigraphyTuesday
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🚪NY. Really pleased to share a proverbial first foot; a satirical tale of an unexpected visitor, a new single, The Cold Collar ft. the magnificent @gruffrhys.bsky.social 🙌 @claypipemusic.bsky.social
👂: andrewwasylyk.lnk.to/coldcollar
👁️: m.youtube.com/watch?v=i95A...
(🎞️: Tommy Perman)
👂: andrewwasylyk.lnk.to/coldcollar
👁️: m.youtube.com/watch?v=i95A...
(🎞️: Tommy Perman)
January 7, 2026 at 2:08 PM
🚪NY. Really pleased to share a proverbial first foot; a satirical tale of an unexpected visitor, a new single, The Cold Collar ft. the magnificent @gruffrhys.bsky.social 🙌 @claypipemusic.bsky.social
👂: andrewwasylyk.lnk.to/coldcollar
👁️: m.youtube.com/watch?v=i95A...
(🎞️: Tommy Perman)
👂: andrewwasylyk.lnk.to/coldcollar
👁️: m.youtube.com/watch?v=i95A...
(🎞️: Tommy Perman)
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@profaliceroberts.bsky.social !! I know you said there was a spectacular Iron Age fund, but you could have warned us!!!
@theduncanmackay.bsky.social and me are going to be fit for nowt today!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
@theduncanmackay.bsky.social and me are going to be fit for nowt today!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
‘Extraordinary’ iron age war trumpet find in Britain may have Boudicca links
Bronze instrument or carnyx dug up in Norfolk in area inhabited by Celtic tribe led by warrior who fought Romans
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 6:58 AM
@profaliceroberts.bsky.social !! I know you said there was a spectacular Iron Age fund, but you could have warned us!!!
@theduncanmackay.bsky.social and me are going to be fit for nowt today!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
@theduncanmackay.bsky.social and me are going to be fit for nowt today!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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Jesus Christ. He is a legal man. As wet as a wet wipe that has been floating in our heavily polluted rivers that he has done literally nothing about. Vote GREEN for fuck's sake.
January 3, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Jesus Christ. He is a legal man. As wet as a wet wipe that has been floating in our heavily polluted rivers that he has done literally nothing about. Vote GREEN for fuck's sake.